喜欢吵闹的汽车吗？研究称你可能是虐待狂或精神病患者

研究将大声排气的吸引力与与犯罪态度相关的黑暗人格特征联系起来

作者：克里斯·奇尔顿

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• 研究调查了 529 名本科男女商科学生，以调查大声排气的吸引力。
• 学生们还完成了简短的黑暗四分体测试，以检查黑暗人格特征。
• 结果表明，对吵闹汽车的热爱与虐待狂和精神病特征有关。

缺乏发动机和排气噪音是阻止许多汽车爱好者拥抱电动汽车的因素之一，无论电动汽车的加速速度有多快。但你有没有想过为什么我们中的一些人喜欢响亮的排气管而另一些人不喜欢？一项新的研究表明，这一切都与性格类型有关，喜欢吵闹的汽车可能是虐待狂或精神病倾向的一个指标。

安大略省伦敦西部大学的心理学、管理和组织研究教授朱莉·艾特肯·谢尔默(Julie Aitken Schermer)在校园附近遛狗时提出了这项研究的想法。

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“我们每天都会遇到这些吵闹的汽车、皮卡车和摩托车，它们会适得其反，让我感到震惊，”她告诉加拿大广播公司。“我的狗被吓到了。我看到树上的动物和地上的松鼠都逃跑了。

“我想，‘哦，谁真的想制造这种噪音呢？’ 因此，作为一名典型的学者，我进行了广泛的搜索，但一无所获。”

因此，Aitken Schermer 决定开展自己的研究，调查了 529 名男性、女性和“其他”本科商科学生。她询问参与者吵闹的汽车是否对他们有吸引力，以及他们是否会修改自己的游乐设施以使其更加吵闹。舍默还给每个人进行了短篇黑暗四分体（SD4）人格测试，旨在找出四种黑暗人格特征：自恋、施虐狂、精神病态和权谋主义。https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MagnaFlow-2024-Ford-Mustang-1a-1024x576.jpg

她原本希望能在自恋和喜欢吵闹的汽车之间找到明显的联系，假设吵闹的引擎所具有的令人回头率的潜力会吸引那些喜欢引起别人注意的人。但相反，她发现与施虐狂和精神病态有更大的联系。

艾特肯·舍默 (Aitken Schermer) 告诉加拿大广播公司 (CBC)：“这似乎是对他人感受和反应的无情漠视。” “这就是精神病态的表现，而且他们可能会因为看到人们受到惊吓而感到兴奋。”

该研究仅限于研究同一所大学攻读商业学位的年轻学生，并且没有询问对摩托车等其他噪音车辆的感受，因此结果不一定反映在更大样本组中发现的结果。但你同意这些发现吗？

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Like Noisy Cars? You Could Be A Sadist Or Psychopath, Study Says

Research linked appeal of loud exhausts to dark personality traits associated with criminal attitudes

by Chris Chilton

May 4, 2024 at 11:00

• Study surveyed 529 undergrad male and female business students to investigate appeal of loud exhausts.
• The students also completed a Short Dark Tetrad test to check for dark personality traits.
• Results linked a love of noisy cars to sadist and psychopathic traits.

The lack of engine and exhaust noise is one of the factors preventing many car enthusiasts from embracing EVs, no matter how fast they can accelerate. But have you ever wondered why some of us love loud pipes and others don’t? A new study says it’s all linked to personality types and that liking noisy cars could be an indicator of sadist or psychopathic tendencies.

Julie Aitken Schermer, a professor of psychology and management and organizational studies at Western University in London, Ontario, came up with the idea for the study while walking her dog close to the campus.

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“Every day we come across these loud cars and pickup trucks and motorcycles that are backfiring and I get startled,” she told CBC. “My dog was startled. I see the animals run away that are in the trees and squirrels on the ground.

“I thought, ‘Oh, who really wants to make this kind of noise?’ And so a typical academic, I went and did an extensive search and found nothing.”

So Aitken Schermer decided to carry out her own study, surveying 529 male, female and “other” undergrad business students. She asked the participants if loud cars appealed to them and if they would modify their own rides to make them noisier. And Schermer also gave each person a Short Dark Tetrad (SD4) personality test designed to sniff out four dark personality traits: narcissism, sadism, psychopathy and machiavellianism.

She’d expected to find a clear link between narcissism and a liking for loud cars, assuming that the head-turning potential of a noisy engine would appeal to people who like to draw attention to themselves. But instead she found a greater link to sadism and psychopathy.

“It seems to be this callous disregard for other people’s feelings and their reactions,” Aitken Schermer told CBC. “That’s the psychopathy coming out and it’s also they probably get a kick out of enjoying watching people get startled.”

The research was limited to studying young students on a business degree at the same university, and it didn’t ask about feelings towards other noisy vehicle, like motorcycles, so the results wouldn’t necessarily reflect those found in a larger sample group. But do you agree with these findings?